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  • (usually uncountable, plural wannesses) The state of being wan; pallor. 1919, Stephen Graham, A Private in the Guards, page 139: […] the faint contours of grey...
    420 bytes (57 words) - 04:20, 19 August 2024
  • Day St. Stephen's Day (countable and uncountable, plural St. Stephen's Days) (Christianity) A Christian holiday commemorating Saint Stephen the protomartyr...
    7 KB (614 words) - 11:51, 27 September 2024
  • joy to radio merchandising, is the dread truth that little pitchers have big ears. 2000, Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, →ISBN, page...
    2 KB (203 words) - 20:17, 9 March 2024
  • about 1850. Synonym: LIA 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN: The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe–variously dated...
    1 KB (154 words) - 02:39, 19 August 2024
  • Dorothy Stephens, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, page 96: Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls...
    1 KB (149 words) - 11:51, 23 November 2024
  • unambitious, superlative most unambitious) having little ambition for success or achievement 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway...
    980 bytes (79 words) - 22:26, 18 August 2024
  • approximability. 2015, Stephen R. Chestnut, Rico Zenklusen, “Hardness and Approximation for Network Flow Interdiction”, in arXiv‎[1]: Very little is known about...
    427 bytes (36 words) - 04:37, 20 August 2023
  • of alkie 1985, Stephen King, Skeleton Crew: No, when an alky blacks out, he keeps doing things. An alky in a blackout is a busy little devil. 1999, Ian...
    494 bytes (54 words) - 10:39, 27 September 2024
  • page 17: And now the murder is out, and I stand before you as Stephen Broadfoot, or "Little Steenie", as I used to be called when attending Edinburgh College...
    685 bytes (81 words) - 14:50, 31 August 2023
  • Extremely frightened. 2006, Stephen J. Martin, Rock and a Hard Place, 1st edition, Cork: Mercier Press, →ISBN, page 368: He gave a little wave and then turned...
    727 bytes (49 words) - 12:51, 2 June 2024
  • Having the force of a catapult. 1889, Stephen Crane, The Monster: And Other Stories, page 22: Suddenly a little boy somersaulted around the corner of...
    382 bytes (48 words) - 01:39, 19 August 2024
  • fatherhood 2009, Stephen Arterburn, John Shore, Midlife Manual for Men: Finding Significance in the Second Half: I then took on a little different form...
    432 bytes (49 words) - 05:03, 20 August 2023
  • Goodfellas: Jimmy Conway: Come on fuckos, let's go for a ride! 2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place: “You forgot your shopping list, Fucko. You don’t...
    736 bytes (77 words) - 04:06, 28 September 2024
  • Beckett, Come and Go: FLO: What do you think of Vi? RU: I see little change. 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger: Vi would be home soon. Any minute, really...
    1 KB (90 words) - 04:06, 28 September 2024
  • of wind sprint 1980, Stephen King, The Mist: Afterward I raced him up and down two of the aisles and even got him giggling a little. […] After the windsprints...
    369 bytes (64 words) - 14:01, 4 October 2022
  • warm and cozy and white snowflakes fall on your little nosy. 2011, Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl., Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston...
    7 KB (641 words) - 23:01, 3 October 2024
  • unbrushable) Not brushable. 1880, Sir Stephen Bartlet Lakeman, What I Saw in Kaffir-land, page 134: My pluckly little friend Dash was (considering his small...
    535 bytes (79 words) - 22:47, 18 August 2024
  • (stative) small, little Antonym: caacoj zixquisiil (“child”) ḻeque ḻeque (interjection used to call a dog)   Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac...
    320 bytes (59 words) - 22:34, 12 February 2024
  • often specifically not commercially viable 2007 January 1, Stephen Holden, “Hush, Little Baby, Mama’s Crooning”, in New York Times‎[1]: But Columbia...
    860 bytes (81 words) - 23:02, 18 August 2024
  • disconcertion (uncountable) Anxious embarrassment 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree: Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial...
    844 bytes (105 words) - 02:18, 2 March 2024
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